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Publication Date: 2006
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Informal Care and the Division of End-of-Life Transfers
Brown, Meta
Journal of Human Resources, v41 n1 p191-219 Win 2006
Unmarried parents in the AHEAD study derive the majority of their long-term care hours from their children, and child caregivers are generally unpaid. This paper examines the extent to which the division of end-of-life transfers compensates caregiving children. In a model of siblings' altruistic contribution of care to a shared parent, the parent's estate division is found to influence total family care, even where care contingencies are unenforced. Evidence in the AHEAD data that end-of-life transfers favor both current and expected caregivers, and that children make altruistic but resource-constrained caregiving decisions, is consistent with a theory of estate division in which planned end-of-life transfers elicit care from altruistic children.
Descriptors: Caregivers, Siblings, Altruism, Child Care, Social Exchange Theory, Incentives, Attribution Theory, Behavioral Science Research, Gerontology, One Parent Family
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